Virginia Woolf’un “Orlando”Sunda Cinsiyet Dönüşümü

Throughout the history of art, from the Ancient Greek to the present day, sexual personas create a certain paradigm with their own passwords. From time to time, the things told about sexual personas were limited and censored or they caused a lot of disturbance. With the loss of the impact of religion on art and society, these personas who are original creations of a multi-layered and complicated accumulation have been revived and they have been the inspiration for many artists. Bringing his subconscious and unconscious attitudes together, the artist has focused on sexsual personas. The identity, provides external attitude to come in sight and the “anima and animus” forming the essence of inner attitude have come together in Virginia Woolf’s fragmental character Orlando. Author, avoids tackling sexuality and feelings arising from sexuality in her novels has this time made a change and handled love passion in her novel called Orlando intensively. It is said that Orlando is a half man-half woman, an androgynous, reflects the lesbian tendencies of the author. In this study, the gender transformation of the protagonist of Woolf’s work Orlando adorned by fantastic elements will be explained via social gender roles. In order to determine the perception of gender and sexual identity of the author who considers the male-female dichotomy with ironic and paradoxical approach we will benefit from queer theory which redifines identity differences thoroughly and considers their social, intellectual, historical and cultural aspects and we will also benifit from the terms “anima and animus” which take part as anthropomorphic archetypes of the subconscious in teaching of Jung.